Will be located in historical Southside Bethlehem, Pa., The Bethlehem Skateplaza will be more then 750 feet long, the plaza will be capable of supporting skaters and bmxers. Replicating popular spots that are well known and publicized in magazines and videos, the skateplaza brings the best of New York, LA, Tokyo, London, and Barcelona.

see, its gonna be real tough to secure funding for the second two phases once you start having all the problems that shared use will cause. there will be confrontations and fights. a lot of kids simply will stick to the streets, since trying to fight bikers for runs is next to impossible, and the damage their pegs cause will render the ledges useless within the first year.

i'm guessing that the local skaters have already voiced these concerns, but you're mister cool park and rec guy who really knows best, right?

shared use doesn't work. bikers kill scenes. this is a fact. ask just about anyone who's been skateboarding more than a year or two.

There will be metal coping place on ledges and etc. to prevent damages because we don't want it to go to shit within the first 6 months. I can't do anything about the bikers, maybe I should have purposely left that part out since that's one of the main things your focusing on. Yes, obviously getting funding for the rest of it is going to be difficult. It's an enormous project. I'm just trying to spread the woooord.

bail bail bail, this aint cali. stick to shit you know. we've been sharing facilities with the bikers at penn skate for years. to tell you the truth, and it hurts the heart, but the bikers are more hardcore than most of this current crop of skaters. MOST OF, not all, praise be to jah.

bail bail bail, this aint cali. stick to shit you know. we've been sharing facilities with the bikers at penn skate for years. to tell you the truth, and it hurts the heart, but the bikers are more hardcore than most of this current crop of skaters. MOST OF, not all, praise be to jah.

100 percent correct. i've been able to co exist with the bikers in the area over all these years as a skateboarder.

all hail Andy Po at Homebase for sure. this whole thing would be nothing without him.

Penn skate is a private park, where they can afford to replace the fucked coping from bikers. Trust me, metal won't save ledges for more than a year. Then who's gonna fix it? Nobody pays fees on a public park, fool. Nobody but tax payers, and they don't pay for maintenance, they pay for the park to be built and that's it.

i was just going to say that. most parks aren'tfrom tax dollars, but from community fundraising...

it's cool that a new park is being built, and i have nothing but respect for the dudes with the tact and patience to deal with city people to get shit like this going, but bikes fucking suck. explanation point.

I see your point. I don't know much about the maintenance and how the upkeep will go, but there are a lot of people that care about the plaza and support this. They won't let it go to hell that quickly especially with all the time/effort that everyone's putting into it.

You should let Rob Dyrdek know that his Kettering plaza ledges have been crumbling for years.